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ACCESS Discussion Day - Friday 27th August 2021=

An ACCESS Discussion Day will be held on Friday August 27th. The aim is to bring together people from across the ACCESS community in an online forum, to talk about the research areas where ACCESS is used (or could be used) and ACCESS developments, both planned and needed, with a particular focus on where the ACCESS-NRI can support ACCESS use and uptake. Everyone is welcome, including both ACCESS developers and users, including users of ACCESS model output, and those at all career stages.

The format for the day will be:

  • 10.00-10.30: Introductory plenary session with short talks on program/institutional ACCESS needs/priorities.
  • 10:45-12:15: Small-group, parallel sessions themed by research area. Each group will be asked to complete a template to provide input to the afternoon session, but otherwise the session time is free to be used as needed.
  • 12:30-13:00: Plenary session to report back on the discussion groups. Notes from morning sessions are available here.
  • 14:00-15:00: Parallel sessions focused on ACCESS-NRI planning, in groups focused on each anticipated ACCESS-NRI team.
  • 15:15-16:00: Plenary session.

To register, and indicate the discussion groups in which you are most interested in participating, please complete the Registration Form

Morning Research Area discussion groups and contacts

Composition-climate ACCESS modelling (Matt Woodhouse)

  • tropospheric aerosol (particularly marine aerosol and clouds)
  • connecting aerosol and clouds / improving the cloud scheme
  • need to model stratospheric aerosol (geo-engineering; next Pinatubo)
  • whole atmosphere chemistry (including stratospheric ozone; hydrogen)
  • connections to other parts of the earth system
  • ease of collaboration with other UM users (in particular staying up to date with UM releases)

Managing carbon / Earth System Modelling (Tilo Ziehn)

  • Research questions / opportunities, for example:
    • Role of Australian land and oceans in mitigation / adaptation and contribution to net-zero emissions
    • Land use and land management, NETs, Geoengineering, carbon sequestration, disturbances, thresholds / tipping points, …
  • New or updated components / configurations required, for example:
    • Dynamic vegetation, fire model, improved representation of ocean and land bgc cycles, non-CO2 greenhouse gases, …

Enhancing ACCESS' research capability (Christian Jakob)

Many modelling centres maintain modelling capabilities that allow the model to be used for fundamental research. Examples are Aquaplanet or Radiative-Convective Equilibrium versions of the atmosphere; The ability to nudge the model towards observations; … We don’t do such capabilities but rather focus on application-ready models. Hence, research using such model versions is either not done or done with overseas models. In this group we should discuss if that is ok, and if it is not, what capabilities we should have and what would be required to build them.

Palaeoclimate (Laurie Menviel, Jo Brown)

No longer running as a separate group. May be covered in the ESM session

  • Existing and planned paleo-experiments
  • Strategies and/or requirements to upscale capabilities
  • Desirable additional/updated components (e.g. dynamic vegetation, Si in oceanic bgc, non-CO2 greenhouse gases…)

From CMIP6 to CMIP7 (Julie Arblaster, Michael Grose, Dave Bi)

  • CMIP for projections - climate sensitivity, large ensembles, spatial resolution
  • Weighting of models, implications for ACCESS(-CM2) as a 'low likelihood, high warming category' model
  • CMIP panel discussion of CMIP7 and input from Australian community
  • Australian ambitions for CMIP7

Coupled Earth System modelling of high latitude regions in the Southern Hemisphere (Petra Heil)

  • Required development of full(er) BGC processes with view to link into atmosphere numerical modules.
  • Coupled ocean-sea ice-BGC-atmosphere modelling: The Marginal-Ice-Zone [MIZ] case study of the DMS pathway from the ocean and sea ice to aerosols and clouds.
  • Metrics for model assessment.
  • The challenge of forecasting versus a balanced system.

Ice sheets and sea level (Ben Galton-Fenzi)

  • Present analysis and techniques for sea level estimates from ACCESS
  • ISMIP6, climate downscaling for ice sheet and sea level
  • Future direction of coupled ice sheet-climate modelling

Simulation and Prediction for the Indo-Pacific (Debbie Hudson, Harun Rashid)

  • Addressing key model biases (atmosphere and ocean)
  • Sensitivity to convection schemes (e.g.,Comorph) and other parameterisations
  • Modelling the Indonesian Throughflow and Maritime continent regions
  • Teleconnections between the Indian and Pacific (ocean and atmosphere) and to Australian climate
  • Types of modelling experiments (e.g., nudging)
  • Evaluation approaches, error diagnostics and data

Near-surface and land-surface (Pete Steinle)

  • Main research questions within near-surface and land-surface models
  • Common research interests across CABLE and JULES
  • Requirements for high resolution modelling
  • Coupled initialization
  • Future modelling and testing frameworks

High-resolution (km-scale) atmosphere (Todd Lane, Chun-Hsu Su)

  • Regional and global atmospheric modelling at km scale for research
  • Challenges and biases (e.g., cloud, rainfall, convection) associated with convection-permitting models
  • Evaluation methods and data
  • Common configurations and community model experiments
  • Idealized configurations to isolate processes

Urban, fire, smoke, dust and air-quality (Charmaine Franklin)

  • What research questions are we trying to answer with these models?
  • What could a 100m-scale urban air quality and fire model look like? What are the important feedbacks to include?
  • How do the limits of predictability impact on the above?
  • How do we evaluate these models?
  • Developments and model configurations required to advance our urban, fire and air-quality modelling research

ACCESS output and data (Chloe Mackallah)

  • Assess the needs of the wider community of ACCESS model output users.
  • Discuss the largest barriers preventing researchers (especially those who do not do modelling) from using ACCESS data (both on the ESGF and raw model output).
  • Determine the balance of interest between the use of CMORised data (CMIP6) and raw model output, and scope any unexpected needs for ACCESS data.

Final schedule and meeting links

10:00-10:30 Introductory Plenary

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=ma361130af9ab6052358e9fe2c4dba082

10:30-10:45 Break

10:45-12:15 Parallel sessions – Research area discussions

Composition-climate ACCESS modelling (Matt Woodhouse)

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=me2d4523a912317c5c62852b7ba36c832

Managing carbon/Earth System Modelling & Paleoclimate (Tilo Ziehn) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m80eed8e9ca46a46a807f8f9ce70ef37f

Enhancing ACCESS’ research capability (Christian Jakob) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=maf5014611b7253efaf4b13f1cbbc7af2

From CMIP6 to CMIP7 (Julie Arblaster, Michael Grose, Dave Bi) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=mba9f10d0b568df17a1e7936b3773b447

Coupled Earth System modelling of high latitude regions in the Southern Hemisphere (Petra Heil) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m85972e73fdbd4c406a323d7bcb74bbaa

Ice sheets and sea level (Ben Galton-Fenzi) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m1bbb86809eba9d93f2f4ae6f4f6256a6

Simulation and Prediction for the Indo-Pacific (Debbie Hudson, Harun Rashid) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=mc1cfe38c847dff103a20c111b8e983cb

Near-surface and land-surface (Pete Steinle) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m7fde39fe49ee16fdb583f454255f66c7

High-resolution (km-scale) atmosphere (Todd Lane, Chun-Hsu Su) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m3835c7a1b371ae86b386a62cec38955a

Urban, fire, smoke, dust and air-quality (Charmaine Franklin) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m4ca0b0793ee7ffd79f59beed221c7294

ACCESS output and data (Chloe Mackallah) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=med580a25dd0f5cbd4e2b2ce6d0655367

12:30-13:00 Plenary – quick (2-minute) reports from each group

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=ma361130af9ab6052358e9fe2c4dba082

13:00-14:00 Break

14:00-15:00 Parallel sessions – themed by anticipated ACCESS-NRI teams

Atmosphere, including chemistry (Christian Jakob, Charmaine Franklin) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=mb01321902f79343e91b7cd66c698bc32

Ocean, including biogeochemistry (Andy Hogg) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=ma04e8a011f79466b81377ecb572cd509

Land-surface, including biogeochemistry (Andy Pitman) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=me287b3dc7dd5d2f0d3e29f6afb1997d5

Data Assimilation (Craig Bishop, Peter Oke) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=me5630a9ba82f323423f4c0e2869a44ec

Software Transformation and new techniques, including NGMS (Joerg Henrichs) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m144c54238360bcc5157bff22609f14fa

Coupled model and configurations (Richard Matear) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m5b8e527653cd9f62541c1432ff5671ff

User engagement (previously release management, data management and user training) (Mark Collier) 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=ma6885bad04e147742f2aa011d0137dbf

15:00-15:15 Break

15:15-16:00 Plenary – reporting back and next steps

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=ma361130af9ab6052358e9fe2c4dba082

16:30 Aspendale Social Club

This Friday coincides with the CSIRO Aspendale Social Club monthly afternoon drinks. Unfortunately, it is currently online only and you need to BYO drink, but David Karoly has offered to host the session if anyone would like to join at 16:30. 

    https://csiro.webex.com/csiro/j.php?MTID=m1691a66df53905a0be52d62a88926058

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